littlecatk

DISCLAIMER: This is a fan video. I do not own the rights to any of the clips or music. For nonprofit entertainment purposes only.

Fandom: Hawaii 5 - O (2010) (reboot)

Music: Dar Williams - Teen for god

Warnings: (police) violence, guns, headshot from behind, a girl being tied up, blood, bruises, drowning, themes of religion/faith,

 

Konno loves her home and her job. She loves the people around her.  

But sometimes it´s hard.

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And we pray for the sinners/And their drunken car wrecks/And vow that I'll never get high/And have sex"

The show like a lot of crime shows can drift into violence. self interest (rage, revenge) of the police "Heros" but Konno is not shown involved in that a lot. She is the rooki of the team - the hope and wish for her to be a better person than they could be. (the others get better too,at least a bit therapy helped them! this makes me stupidly happy (of cause thats probably not what the makers intented but i i like this better).

So there is Konno being sworn i, getting her gun - vowing to protect and serve the law and people - and her smashing a car window because the sex traffic case was wearing her thin (7.19), her holding another woman under water (1.2). 

"And God made every leaf on every tree/Each grain of sand"

Chin hugging her in s2.e1. because she fears for her job after the thing with the govenor. Adam holding her as they watch a family reunion Adam arranged for a fellow prisioner who became a better person and helped him there (7.5). 

Redemptation, doing wrong and then doing better. Chins arc, Adams arc. 

Also Steve/Konno - not romantical/sexual but damn. He wants her to stay safe, he wants her to do better. And I am ashamed but yeah i dig this sad guilty face.

i tried to show her culture and people - the places she gets her strenght from. even in crisis. 

The first "teen for g.d" shows her in her first episode gaping for air and being so shocked angry that someone would ruin her wave (she knocks him for that)/her as a little kid and her mothers encouraging words: you will get knocked off again, again and again, but you can always get up again too.

The little girl who binds the braclet around her arm is from 1.06 - when an old friend of Konno shows her where he lives, house prices are very high but the people there do not want to leave (the land of their ancestors) - the show has like lots of cop shows a problem with affirming the status quo of the system a lot but sometimes things are done good/okay.

the little amulet she is looking at (0:58) is the patron saints of police, Dannys gift to her for her swearing-in-ceremony - when she feels useless/helpless and has to spring in action

the badge sliding over the table is Chins offering him back in in 1.24 (after all the shit they pulled on him)

(i love objects in fanvids! symbolic story telling. not having to look in faces)

- the song is actually about the problems with institutional religion (in form of denying things that are personal decisions) while being spirutal.

The desires she fights to control here are anger/violence, depression, and self interest.

I love stories about people taking action, seeing unjustice and wanting to end them, i love characters who chose to protect (kids!i love kids in media, i love characters who love them) - changing the system from within  is difficult -

the video is not really about this.

i love hopeful videos too much, i vid for myself. vid to deal with stuff and feel better. and maybe someone else will feel stuff (and better even?) because of it too.

1:04 the way she turns away unable to look at that scene.

1:47 - small stuff but i do love Konno/Kathrine - and i am general for more femslash